09/06/2024 Edition 139

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American Associated of Physicists in Medicine/RSNA Imaging Physics Residency Grant. $35,000 for two years as matching support for one resident. Two programs will be selected. Application Deadline: 05/13/2025.

The purpose of the AAPM funding is to provide 50% support of a resident's salary for two imaging physics residency programs for two years. The awardee institution(s) will provide the other 50% support. After the period of the award is over, the intent is that the awardee institution(s) will continue to fully support this new imaging physics residency position. Demonstration of this intent should be included in the application materials. This funding support will begin in July 2026.

AAPM and RSNA provide matched funding to support these grants. Two programs are selected. Each institution receives $35,000 for two years as matching support for one resident.

Applicant Eligibility

• CAMPEP accreditation is expected within the first year of the funding period, if a program is not currently accredited.
• Open to new imaging residency programs or existing residency programs looking to add a new residency slot.
• A new program refers to one that has submitted its application for CAMPEP accreditation between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024.

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NLM Information Resource Grants to Reduce Health Disparities and Promote Health Equity (G08 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), PAR-24-281. CFDA #s 93.879 and 93.313. Up to $200,000 in direct costs per year. Maximum project period is 3 years. Application Deadline: 12/13/24 or 05/25/25.

This Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO) solicits resource grant applications for projects that will provide accurate, useful, usable, and understandable health information to populations that experience health disparities and their health care providers. This NOFO supports the development of resources that can be used to improve health and well-being and that lead to reductions in health disparities. Access to accurate, useful, usable, and understandable health information is an important factor when managing health and health care. Proposed projects should harness the capabilities of information technology and medical or health libraries to disseminate clear, evidence-based health-related information in formats used by individuals and their health care providers. Proposed projects should emphasize the development and deployment of new information resources or services, or expand and improve an existing resource or service, to meet the needs of populations experiencing health disparities and to promote health equity.

Topics that are responsive to this grant program include, but are not limited to:

• Developing or upgrading health information resources or services to meet the information needs of groups that experience health disparities. 
• Providing health information resources or services to community organizations who serve populations that experience health disparities.
• Developing novel information strategies to facilitate the implementation of innovative patient-centered care and precision medicine for diverse communities.
• Developing information resources that enable persons from populations that experience health disparities to make informed decisions regarding research participation, such as providing culturally tailored clinical trial education materials.
• Facilitating the use of library resources to identify population needs related to types and forms of information, including information visualizations, displays and interfaces to access information, to assist in making health-related decisions.

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NIH Building Sustainable Software Tools for Open Science (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), RFA-OD-24-011. CFDA #s 93.310, 93.865, 93.286, 93.847, 93.846, 93.396, 93.172, 93.307, 93.113, 93.879, 93.867, 93.866, 93.121, 93.242, 93.213, 93.233, 93.837, 93.838, 93.839, 93.840, 93.273, 93.279, 93.173, 93.853. The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $300,000. No more than $200,000 direct costs may be requested in any single year. A project duration of up to two years may be requested. Application Deadline: 12/04/24 or 06/04/25.

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to enhance the sustainability and impact of research software tools by enabling the use of best practices and design principles in software development and by leveraging continuing advances in computing. The Building Sustainable Software Tools for Open Science (R03) funding opportunity is intended to provide a flexible mechanism to support the use of best practices for scientific software development and to promote community engagement for open science. Successful grants will enable and/or enhance biomedical, clinical, behavioral, social, and health-related research endeavors by (1) developing robust, sustainable, scalable, and reproducible research software tools and workflows, (2) extending the impact of research software by broader dissemination to the scientific community, (3) supporting collaborations between scientists and software engineers to leverage modern, best practices in research software development, and (4) enhancing software skills of the research workforce.

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NIH NIGMS Innovative Programs to Enhance Research Training (IPERT) (R25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed), PAR-24-252. CFDA # 93.859. Limited to $500,000 per year in direct costs. The scope of the proposed project should determine the project period. The maximum project period is 5 years. Application Deadline: 10/17/24.

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.

To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will support educational activities with a primary focus on:

• Courses for Skills Development
• Mentoring Activities
• Curriculum or Methods Development

NIGMS will support innovative educational activities designed to equip participants with technical, operational, or professional skills required for careers in the biomedical research workforce. Activities must be open to the broader biomedical research community and may focus on participants at one or more career stages from undergraduates to professionals (for example faculty, staff scientists). Funded programs will have a robust program leadership structure, participant recruitment plan, and evaluation and dissemination plans.

This NOFO requires a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP).

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